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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. - Virgini

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. – Virginia Woolf

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. – Virginia Woolf

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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 Mathews

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The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To make a beeline for something. Thats worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess Ill split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded. – Robert Fitzgerald

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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. – Sir John Denham

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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. – Edith Hamilton

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