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“Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“I felt every level, graphemic, morphological, and semantic, and they all hurt.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“I need to make money. I need to write today. I need to clean the bathroom. I need to eat something. I need to quit sugar. I need to cut my hair. I need to call Verizon. I need to savor the moment. I need to find the library card. I need to learn to meditate. I need to try harder. I need to get that stain out. I need to find better health insurance. I need to discover my signature scent. I need to strengthen and tone. I need to be present in the moment. I need to learn French. I need to be easier on myself. I need to buy organizational storage units. I need to call back. I need to develop a relationship with a God of my understanding.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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