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The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.

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However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other worlds and to construct one of his own and that the aim of the translator is to re-embody himself into the world of the various writers.

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The translator constantly learns new things about himself.

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It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Ventseslav Konstantinov

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Born: September 14, 1940
Died: April 22, 2019 (aged 78)
Bio: Ventseslav Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, aphorist and translator of German and English literature.

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