"There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work."
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"Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence."
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"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."
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"Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?."
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"In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked another, it eluded me' - a struggle in which, curiously, when the translator wins, the text wins too."
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