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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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If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? – Virginia Woolf

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Education
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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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. – Walter Benjamin

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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. – Boris Pasternak

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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 best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. – Leonardo Sciascia

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