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No opinions would be worth holding except by those who read works in the original.
A desire to believe (despite all evidence to the contrary) that words are at bottom the names of things is what makes the translator's mission seem so impossible.
But a world in which all intercultural communication was carried out in a single idiom would not diminish the variety of human tongues. It would just make native speakers of the international medium less sophisticated users of language than all others, since they alone would have only one language to think with.
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.
In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.
To expand our minds and to become more fully civilized members of the human race, we should learn as many different languages as we can. The diversity of tongues is a treasure and a resource for thinking new thoughts.
