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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.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Walter Benjamin |

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Sibel Edmonds |

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Ralph Waldo Emerson |

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.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Voltaire |