Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an — Andrés Neuman
Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an — Andrés Neuman
Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an — Andrés Neuman
Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an — Andrés Neuman
Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an — Andrés Neuman
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Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together.

— Andrés Neuman
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