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4 quotesA great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Ezra Pound
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Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
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Virginia Woolf
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
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Sir John Denham
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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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Leonardo Sciascia
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun