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The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.77, Modern Library

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.58, University of Chicago Press