“ The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. ”
- Harry Mathews- Copy
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“ For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of thought as distinct both from the history of ideas It seemed to me there was one element that was capable of describing the history of thoughthis was what one could call the problems or, more exactly, problematizations… ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
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“ The anatta theory denies the existence of a self only when the word self is taken to refer to some thing in addition to the groups of factors making up a person. The conviction that there is a substantial self is the root-cause of suffering, for this results in the attitude that underlies and makes possible the attachment of the various processes to a self… ”
- John M. Koller- Copy
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