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A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
Gregory Rabassa
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Ramallah is not Auschwitz. Israel is not the Third Reich. We have no death camps and we haven't massacred one third of the Palestinian population in gas chambers. Therefore, everything we do is quite all right. We may fill the occupied territories with tear gas and blood, we may kill and injure and torture and blackmail and dispossess, we may surround millions by electric fences and tanks in tiny enclaves, we may hold them under siege and daily bombing, we may make pregnant women walk to hospitals, and we shoot ambulances too, don't we. But as long as we fall even an inch short of the atrocities of Nazi Germany, it's all fine and good, and don't you dare make the comparison.
Ran HaCohen
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History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
Claudio Magris
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Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.
Alan Hollinghurst
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We do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for the world of nature because we do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for ourselves. It is because we cripple and mutilate ourselves that we cripple and mutilate everything else as well. Our contemporary crisis is really our own depravity writ large.
Philip Sherrard
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The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.
Paul Celan
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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
Whittaker Chambers
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Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
George Chapman
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The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
John Ciardi
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Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.
August Wilhelm Schlegel
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Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness, but, in fact, all thought is sickness, which is why no one ever thinks too much, at least most people do their best not to.
Javier Marías
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Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.
Jack Zipes
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Inclusivism: Whereas Exclusivists regard general revelation as informative only and special revelation as both informative and salvific, Inclusivists, by contrast, regard general revelation as both informative and salvific and special revelation as even mere deeply informative and even more effectively and widely salvific!
Don Richardson (missionary)
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The Kabbalah was first taught by God himself to a select company of angels, who formed a theosophic school in Paradise.
Christian David Ginsburg
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Time is of the essence,
The crowd and players
Are the same age always,
But the man in the stand,
Is older every season.
Rolfe Humphries
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I was invited to Romania at least once, but was warned that I should not be free to travel where I pleased in the country, but should be more or less confined to the Writers' Union. Because I ceased long ago to be an urban poet and feel claustrophobic in literary conferences, I could not accept such an invitation.
Michael Hamburger
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Being involved in sciences or various arts is not a reason for neglecting the causes of social problems.
Taraneh Javanbakht
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I think our lives are surely but the dreams
Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake.
Edgar Saltus
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The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn't know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.
Margery Williams
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Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce.
Ninni Holmqvist
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There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.
Ludwig Lewisohn
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Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
Christopher Marlowe
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Now my soul is incarnate in my country,
My body has swallowed her soul,
And I and my country are one.
My name is million, for I love and suffer for millions.
Adam Mickiewicz
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All was taken away from you: white dresses,
wings, even existence.
Yet I believe you,
messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out,
a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts,
you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.
Czesław Miłosz
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The best critic of a translation is its second translation and nothing else. The person who translates a text should have something to say about that.
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