As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in...

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in...

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life...

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life...

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life...

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life...

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and...

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and...

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass...

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass...

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with...

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with...

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you...

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you...

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary...

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary...

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will...

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will...

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to...

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to...

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I...

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I...

And she finally stopped playing their song, when she realized she was dancing alone.

And she finally stopped playing their song, when she realized she was dancing alone.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of...

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of...

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible...

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible...

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though...

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though...