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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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Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women? – Virginia Woolf

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

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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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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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

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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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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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