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“The word loss was inadequate. Loss just meant a lack, meant something was missing, but it did not encompass the totality of this severance, this terrifying un-anchoring from all that he’d ever known.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“It’s French, Letty.’ Ramy rolled his eyes. ‘Latin’s flimsiest daughter. How hard could it be?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“And if I could go back in time I’d clip the chain in a heartbeat and never care a minute that the picture was never painted.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“Books are meant to be touched, otherwise they’re useless.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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