Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. - George Steiner - Quotesmemo.com

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There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

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George Steiner

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

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When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

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We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

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Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

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Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

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