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Jay L. Garfield Quotes:

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When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

- Jay L. Garfield

source: "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012..

topic: Way, Failing, Betray, Thankless

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