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“You have neglected to unlock the hidden heat within your liquid." I frowned, confused. "But the cream is cold. There is no heat." Becker smiled. "All liquids contain a latent heat concealed within themselves. Even when they feel cold, they are secretly hot. You must withdraw that fire by means of the frigorific method." I didn't even attempt to repeat the word. "It all sounds rather complicated." "On the contrary," Becker said. "It is simplicity itself. What you require, my dear lady, is salt.”

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Book:The Art of a Lie
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“Translators build the bridges. The chasm between languages is a deep ravine of silence. So what can we do but trust that the translators' bridges are sturdy, will carry the weight of meaning from one side of the ravine to the other? But all these bridges are faulty. Hitches and chinks because one language cannot cross over to another language unaltered and unflawed.”

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Book:Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
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“「如果有群山賊只治理村落一個星期，那這些傢伙大概不到一天就會讓整個村子傾家蕩產；但是如果治理一年，他們就會等到秋收的時候，還會讓村民活下去；如果治理十年，他們就會制定計劃，因為不能大家一起餓死，所以會給村民食物和衣服；如果要治理三十年，他們就會關心要不要生孩子的問題。治理三十年的山賊，那就是國家啊！」 「既然要在山賊底下生活，那治理時間長的山賊比較好，對嗎？」 瑪麗如此問時，張益德咧嘴一笑，給了模稜兩可的答案：「啊，話是這樣說沒錯，但妳不要到處去嚷嚷說是爸爸教妳的。」”

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Book:Your Republic Is Calling You
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“Well, there are all sorts of formulas in junior high school math: Pythagoras’s theorem, the quadratic equation, that sort of thing … Memorizing formulas enables you to solve a whole variety of problems. If, however, you memorize a formula wrongly to start with, you’ll end up getting things wrong over and over again. That can happen, can’t it? … Make sure to get your students to memorize all the formulas correctly.”

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Book:A Death in Tokyo
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“[A] religious text has depth. The reader of Kafka's texts, however, can feel no such confidence in even the partial recuperation of deeper meaning. As Adorno notes, it is characteristic of Kafka's texts that "words, [and] metaphors in particular, detach themselves and achieve a certain autonomy." The experience of reading Kafka in this sense is the very opposite to theological interpretation: it defeats the religious hope that one might pierce the surface of these autonomous words to reach a level of ultimate meaning. Not without cause does Adorno call Kafka "the parabolist of impenetrability".”

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Author:Peter E. Gordon
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“Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of our journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty. This truth saddens the doctor no less than it does other men and women who are given to reflection — although his sorrow is undeniably of a quality different from theirs.”

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Book:False Memory
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“Metaphor: «Barbado y entre sábanas de dislocado espectro, osa ahuyentar las olas, cual mal comediante la patraña del despropósito, pues antes que fraile barbero fue la mar, loada de pocos lobos y burla de los muchos necios» Answer: La cita es una descripción irónica o sarcástica de alguien que pretende dominar o escapar de una situación que le supera, como el mar o la vida. El hablante le compara con un hombre barbudo y envuelto en sábanas blancas, que parece un fantasma o un loco, y que intenta espantar las olas con gestos ridículos, como un mal actor que representa una farsa o una mentira. El hablante le recuerda que el mar es más antiguo y poderoso que él, y que solo merece el respeto de unos pocos valientes y el desprecio de muchos necios.”

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Book:La Rosa Inglesa
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“A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying the ash-tray, watering the sloping aloe plant. Opening the window wide to let new air in. I did all this inside my head, behind my eyes, while my fingers made words appear and waited for that guest to arrive.”

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Book:Do You Remember Being Born?
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“Metaphor: «El espectro de coerción tiende a lo inevitable, y los herrumbrosos engranajes de esta imprudente metáfora no son consecuentes con la tácita evidencia. Pues, bajo estos sólidos cimientos tan impregnados de acción y epicidad, no hay lapso ni ápice redentor que transmita a fe ciega tan agria tesitura en pos de la buena ventura.» Answer: En el contexto de la obra "Odysseus", la cita se puede interpretar como una reflexión sobre la guerra. La guerra es una forma de coerción, y el hablante sostiene que la guerra es inevitable y destructiva. No hay lugar para la esperanza o la fe ciega en un mundo gobernado por la guerra. En conclusión, la cita es una reflexión poderosa sobre la naturaleza de la coerción y su inevitable tendencia a la violencia. El hablante sostiene que la coerción es incompatible con la buena ventura, y que las sociedades que se basan en la coerción están destinadas al fracaso.”

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Book:Odysseus
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“Metaphor: «Fatalidad, desasosiego y mal augurio, esos son hijos de la misma rama, la de la muerte, pues en la balanza de su propio criterio, ahora equilibra nuestro peso, con concienzudo ministerio» Answer: La cita evoca una sensación de destino ineludible, inquietud y presagios negativos, todos derivados de la inevitabilidad de la muerte. Se sugiere que la muerte equilibra nuestras vidas con atención meticulosa, evaluando nuestro peso en la balanza de algún criterio reflexivo y concienzudo. La balanza puede sugerir el peso de la mortalidad en nuestras vidas.”

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Book:Morpheus
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