Alitzel

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“«No es la muerte la que se lleva a los que amamos. Al contrario, los guarda y los fija en su juventud adorable. No es la muerte la que disuelve el amor, es la vida la que disuelve el amor».”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos

“In the end, the problem is not so much that people forget, but that they do not always forget the same thing. What still exists as a memory for one person can be irretrievably lost for another, and this creates difficulties, insuperable barriers against understanding.”
― Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things

“There are those who have. And there are those who have not. It's very simple: the girl had not. Hadn't what? Simply this: she had not. If you get my meaning that's fine. If you don't, it's still fine.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star