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“Language was just the difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. No; a thousand words within one. And translation – a necessary endeavour, however futile, to move between them.”

“ ‘Doesn’t it kill you?’ His voice broke. ‘Knowing what they’ve done? Seeing their faces? I can’t imagine a world where we coexist with them. Doesn’t it split you apart?’ ”