“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”
“The world cannot be translated; it can only be dreamed of and touched.”
“World II,” p. 84
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Same and Change”
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“It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.”
As quoted in "From Bach to Kafka, or... about temptation - An interview by Emil Bassat http://darl.eu/intervie/84_05_30.htm" in Sofia News (30 May 1984).
"Oscar Wilde's Fairy Godmother", The Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1973) p. 278 (1948)
Shri K. R. Narayanan President of India in Conversation with N. Ram on Doordarshan and All India Radio
Refer to current Sringeri Shankaracharya discourses in Telugu and Tamil (two different pravachans). Do not blindly translate "Mithya" as Unreal. Do not misrepresent what Adi Shankaracharya preached in Sanskrit to his students and world using useless English translations.
Alternative translation: Brahman is the only truth, the world is illusion, and there is ultimately no difference between Brahman and individual self.
Translation in Global Encyclopaedia of Indian Philosophy (2010), by N.K. Singh and A.P. Mishra, p. 16.
Robert A. Heinlein, in Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)