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Please add here your favourite quotations. In the title write the name of the writer and the subject matter, i.e. "G.B. Shaw - On Politics".

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Αγαπημένα μας αποφθέγματα μελών του φόρουμ Started by Frederique « 1 2 »	29 / 18856	by Frederique 09 Apr, 2018, 21:31:55
Quotations index -> Ευρετήριο αποφθεγμάτων Started by Frederique « 1 2 3 4 »	51 / 63294	by Frederique 17 Feb, 2010, 20:11:16
Translation is a form of creative writing, it’s just creative writing within very strict parameters. Robert Frost once said that “writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.” Non-translation writing for me is like tennis with the net down as well. You can do anything, but do you want to? Started by spiros	0 / 27	by spiros 13 May, 2018, 15:37:24
A translator is like a musician, and the original author is the composer Started by spiros	0 / 42	by spiros 13 May, 2018, 15:35:37
God handed down the truth, and the Devil said, “Let me organize it.” Started by spiros	0 / 13	by spiros 11 May, 2018, 01:47:11
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open -> Εκείνος που έρχεται για να κάνει καλό, χτυπά την πύλη· εκείνος που αγαπά βρίσκει την πύλη ανοιχτή Started by spiros	0 / 28	by spiros 28 Apr, 2018, 18:23:37
If you’ll pardon me for making this somewhat prosaic observation – maybe that’s what life is, or ends up being most of the time: a rehearsal for a performance that never eventually materializes. Started by spiros	0 / 37	by spiros 25 Apr, 2018, 17:01:09
Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises―War and Shopping―simply will not work. Started by spiros	0 / 34	by spiros 25 Apr, 2018, 17:00:23
Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty. Started by spiros	0 / 41	by spiros 25 Apr, 2018, 16:58:55
Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? Started by spiros	0 / 37	by spiros 25 Apr, 2018, 16:57:08
The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle. Started by spiros	0 / 34	by spiros 25 Apr, 2018, 16:56:00
The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains. Started by spiros	0 / 27	by spiros 25 Apr, 2018, 16:53:05
He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her. Started by spiros	0 / 25	by spiros 25 Apr, 2018, 16:51:11
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Started by spiros	0 / 38	by spiros 25 Apr, 2018, 16:48:24
The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke. Started by spiros	0 / 38	by spiros 25 Apr, 2018, 16:46:41
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. Started by spiros	0 / 27	by spiros 25 Apr, 2018, 16:45:36
Θα μπορούσε να πει κανείς ότι οι άνθρωποι είμαστε ο καρκίνος πάνω στη Γη γι αυτό και πολλοί από εμάς πεθαίνουμε τελικά από καρκίνο. Started by spiros	0 / 38	by spiros 23 Apr, 2018, 16:34:14
Πριν ξεκινήσεις ένα ταξίδι εκδίκησης σκάψε δυο τάφους Started by spiros	0 / 42	by spiros 23 Apr, 2018, 11:35:55
Magic carpet rides inside our minds Started by spiros	0 / 46	by spiros 22 Apr, 2018, 13:19:29
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind -> Το να ξέρεις καλά μόνο ένα πράγμα σημαίνει πως έχεις το μυαλό ενός βαρβάρου Started by spiros	0 / 51	by spiros 16 Apr, 2018, 19:56:00

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