An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Translation Limits of language Language

Author

Miguel de Unamuno

Source

The Tragic Sense of Life

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

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Spain Europe

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Citation

De Unamuno, Miguel. The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples, translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch. Macmillan and Company, 1921, preface.

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He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

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Source
A Painful Case Dubliners
Medium
Short story
Language
English
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud

Totem and Taboo

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Nature of God God

Author

Sigmund Freud
Source
Totem and Taboo
Genre
Sociology
Language
German
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Totem und Tabu Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker [Totem and Taboo Some Similarities in the Soul Life of the Wild and the Neurotic]. Beacon Press, 1913, ch. 4, sect. 6. Originally published in Imago, c. 1912.