March 2011
134 posts
“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly...”
– T.H.White
“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“Only a simple black pencil will do for making notation of a benchmark. Ink will...”
– Graphite from Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales
“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
– Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik
or drown if you’re learning Russian
just found this gem of an example in my German...
Wer hat (dir) befohlen, die Geiseln zu ershießen?
translation: who gave you permission to shoot the hostages?
