Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
© Harry Burchell Mathews @quote
© Harry Burchell Mathews @quote
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
© Ralph Waldo Emerson @quote
© Ralph Waldo Emerson @quote
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The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
© Robert McKain @quote
© Robert McKain @quote
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
© George Orwell @quote
© George Orwell @quote
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If I can't do it, I will work on it until I can. If I become able to do it, I will work on it until I can do it perfectly. If I become able to do it perfectly, I will work on it until I can do it perfectly any number of times.
© Yuzuru Hanyu @quote
© Yuzuru Hanyu @quote
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This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
© Don DeLillo @quote
© Don DeLillo @quote
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
© Khalil Gibran @quote
© Khalil Gibran @quote
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All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning.
You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning
© Angelus Silesius @quote
You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning
© Angelus Silesius @quote
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
© Sigmund Freud @quote
© Sigmund Freud @quote
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We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.
© Hildegard of Bingen @quote
© Hildegard of Bingen @quote
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Writing well was almost the same as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well.
© Thomas Mann @quote
© Thomas Mann @quote
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
© Ambrose Bierce @quote
© Ambrose Bierce @quote
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