Definition Ersatz / Substitute Fähig / Able Ja / Yes Lesen / Read Meisterstück / Masterpiece Original Sein / Being Übersetzung / Translation Unzureichend / Inadequate
Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.
I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'
The beauty of the original monster movies is that you were able to relate to every single character, or even to treat their monstrosity as an emotional metaphor.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
