Kató Lomb Quotes

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Kató Lomb, born on February 8, 1909, and died on June 9, 2003, was a prominent Hungarian scholar and translator. She was renowned for her translations of world literary works.

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“A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe.”

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Author:Kató Lomb

“At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.”

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Book:Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

Source: Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop.”

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Book:Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

Source: Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“To look it at another way, surely there are many unfortunate people who have needed to undergo multiple stomach surgeries. Yet no one would hand a scalpel over to them and ask them to perform the same surgery they received on another person, simply because they themselves had undergone it so often.”

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Book:Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

Source: Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on.”

Language Learning Languages Multilingual Bilingualism

Book:Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

Source: Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas.”

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Author:Kató Lomb

About the Author

Born: February 8, 1909
Died: June 9, 2003
Known for: Author
Quotes: 22

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