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Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware… — Edgar Allan Poe
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in… — Mercedes Lackey
You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful. — Marjane Satrapi
Let the die be cast! [Greek: Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος; contemporary Latin (mis)translation: Iacta alea est!] — Julius Caesar
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently… — Diane Duane
Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder -… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded with cat stuff.… — P. C. Cast
I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway… — Karen Marie Moning
Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love — Erich Segal
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. — Anne Michaels
So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't… — Ally Carter
He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American"… — Jordan Sonnenblick
Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat. — Kiersten White
My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that… — Marc Levy
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond… — Harper Lee
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he… — John Flanagan
I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even… — Anne Carson
Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We… — Karen Joy Fowler
Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation. — Ashok K. Banker
Sestrilla, hafelina Jue amourasestrilla Awou jue selaviena En patre jue Translation: Beloved one, little cat I love you for all time In this time And… — Christine Feehan
If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie — Marguerite Yourcenar
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. — Rachel Vincent
There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused to go inside.… — Markus Zusak
One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful. — John Green

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