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Jorge Luis Borges
: The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
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Anaïs Nin :
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The dream has to be translated into reality.
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John Donne :
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Leonardo Sciascia :
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The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
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Walter Benjamin :
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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson :
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I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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Boris Pasternak :
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Sir John Denham :
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
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Ezra Pound :
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Francois Mitterand :
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il faut laisser du temps au temps
(you have to give time time - approximate translation)
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
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If Dahlmann was without hope, he was also without fear. As he crossed the threshold, he felt that to die in a knife fight, under the open sky, and going forward to the attack, would have been a liberation, a joy, and a festive occasion, on the first night in the sanitarium, when they stuck him with the needle. He felt that if he had been able to choose, then, or to dream his death, this would have been the death he would have chosen or dreamt. Firmly clutching his knife, which he perhaps would not know how to wield, Dahlmann went out into the plain.
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And yet, and yet … Negar la sucesión temporal, negar el yo, negar el universo astronómico, son desesperaciones aparentes y consuelos secretos. Nuestro destino no es espantoso por irreal: es espantoso porque es irreversible y de hierro. El tiempo es la sustancia de que estoy hecho. El tiempo es un río que me arrebata, pero yo soy el río; es un tigre que me destroza, pero yo soy el tigre; es un fuego que me consume, pero yo soy el fuego. El mundo desgraciadamente es real; yo, desgraciadamente, soy Borges.
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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
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A writer and, I believe, generally all persons must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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