Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.


Kakuzō Okakura

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You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY
Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY
no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE
What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA
We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL
Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE
We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES
The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY
If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge...
JON RONSON
A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA
Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER
Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.
A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ...
SOTONYE ANGA
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS
Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, every-one in the first half of his...
IRVIN D. YALOM
A rocky road is best at the beginning of a journey, in my opinion, if you get past the bumps you rea...
BOBBY W. MILLER
Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Farming is the oldest profession on earth
SOTONYE ANGA
He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; an...
DAVID MITCHELL
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
LEONARDO SCIASCIA
All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO
In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised m...
KAKUZō OKAKURA
Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t...
C. JOYBELL C.
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS
I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS
He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS
I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS
I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Si escuchas la canción Asleep, y piensas en esos días en los que hace un clima precioso que te hac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS
Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY
The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS...
The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY
Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS...

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We classify too much and enjoy too little.
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In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.
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We must remember, however, that art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us. It might be...
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Have you not noticed that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year? It may be that their wis...
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Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.
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For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought.
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The Taoist and Zen conception of perfection... the dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stre...
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Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always...
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Everyone has to build anew his sky of hope and peace.
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In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised m...
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Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains ar...
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We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cr...
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Much has been said of the aesthetic values of chanoyu- the love of the subdued and austere- most com...
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Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.
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In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confu...
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People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.
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Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.
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But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tea...
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The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
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Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their...
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True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.
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Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existe...
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The ideal lover of flowers is he who visits them in their native haunts, like Taoyuenming who sat be...
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The tea-masters held that real appreciation of art is only possible to those who make of it a living...
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One is reminded in this connection of a story concerning Kobori-Enshiu. Enshiu was complimented by h...
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[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humi...
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We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must neve...
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The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
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