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Quote by 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. – Walter Benjamin

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. – Walter Benjamin

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

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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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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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