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An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Quotes by Vladimir Prelog

Translation is the art of failure.

Quotes by Umberto Eco

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

Quotes by Sibel Edmonds

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

Quotes by Rene Magritte

I want my words to survive translation.

Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing.

Quotes by Julia Holter

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Quotes by John Denham

I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.

Quotes by Jan Vogler

Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world.

Quotes by Gillian Tans

Translation is at best an echo.

Quotes by George Borrow

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

Quotes by Evan Osnos

I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So basically, I write the same novel twice.

Quotes by Elif Safak

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Quotes by Cyril Connolly

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Quotes by Cornelia Funke

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Quotes by Brian Ferneyhough

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