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One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

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Gunter Grass

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

Changes, Everything, Nothing, Things Change, Translations, Translators

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The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

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It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

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On sorrow floats laughter.

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People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.

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Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

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Who dat dere's gunna beat dat team? Who Dat? Who dat?

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