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"Languages aren't just made of words. They are modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civilisation. And that's knowledge worth killing for."

"How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?"

"Yet didn't he have a right to be happy?"

The parabell of being acutely aware of the injustice of the world, our privilege and our part in that system and yet, there is still the desire to be happy and the guilt of feeling so.

"Quot linguas quis callet, tot homines valet."

"A lie was not a lie if it was never uttered; questions that were never asked did not need answers. They would both remain perfectly content to linger in the liminal, endless space between truth and denial."