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> [The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/the-full-meaning-of-a-language-is-never-translatable-into-another-we/)

[Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/)

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> [Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/nothing-in-a-language-is-less-translatable-than-its-modes-of/)

[George Steiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-steiner/)

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