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“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“-I don't know what to do with it -
-With what?
-With all the love I have for her. I don't know...where to - put it now.”
― Fleabag: The Scriptures
-With what?
-With all the love I have for her. I don't know...where to - put it now.”
― Fleabag: The Scriptures
“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
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“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
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Reading the 20th Century
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