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Source text in Spanish

- «Aspiramos a ser lo que auténticamente somos, pero a medida que creemos lograrlo, nos invade el hartazgo de lo que realmente somos».

- «Los únicos brazos entre los cuales nos resignaríamos a pasar la vida son los brazos de las Venus que han perdido los brazos».

- «Una luz sin fuerza para llegar al suelo ribetea con tiza las molduras y las aristas de las casas, que tienen facha de haber dormido mal, y obliga a salir de entre sus sábanas a las nubes desnudas, que se envuelven en gasas amarillentas y verdosas y se ciñen, por último, una túnica blanca».

- «Jamás existirán caballos capaces de tirar un par de patadas que violenten, más rotundamente, las leyes de la perspectiva y posean, al mismo tiempo, un concepto más equilibrado de la composición, que el par de patadas que tiran los heroicos percherones de Paolo Uccello».

- «Nada ansío de nada, mientras dura el instante de eternidad que es todo, cuando no quiero nada».

- «Aunque se alteren todas nuestras concepciones sobre la Vida y la Muerte, ha llegado el momento de denunciar la enorme superchería de las "Meninas" que —siendo las propias "Meninas" de carne y hueso— colgaron un letrerito donde se lee Velázquez, para que nadie descubriera el auténtico y secular milagro de su inmortalidad».

- «La disección de los ojos de Monet hubiera demostrado que Monet poseía ojos de mosca; ojos forzados por innumerables ojitos que distinguen con nitidez los más sutiles matices de un color pero que, siendo ojos autónomos, perciben esos matices independientemente, sin alcanzar una visión sintética de conjunto».

- «El cúmulo de atorrantismo y de burdel, de uso y abuso de limpiabotas, de sensiblería engominada, de ojo en compota, de rebote y de tristeza sin razón —allí está la pampa... más allá del indio... la quena... el tamboril— que se espereza y canta en los acordes del tango que improvisa cualquier lunfardo».

- «Los cubistas salvaron a la pintura de las corrientes de aire, de los rayos de sol que amenazaban derretirla pero —al cerrar herméticamente las ventanas, que los impresionistas habían abierto en un exceso de entusiasmo— le suministraron tal cúmulo de recetas, una cantidad tan grande de ventosas que poco faltó para que la asfixiaran y la dejasen descarnada, como un esqueleto».

- «Los bustos romanos serían incapaces de pensar si el tiempo no les hubiera destrozado la nariz».

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Submitted segment translations

Translations submitted for each source text segment are listed below. Segments have had surrounding punctuation stripped, and the resulting identical segments have been grouped together, so each listed translation should differ, but the difference may be subtle (eg. internal punctuation or diacritics).

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- «Los únicos brazos entre los cuales nos resignaríamos a pasar la vida son los brazos de las Venus que han perdido los brazos».
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"Los brazos de las Venus que han perdido los brazos": mujeres ideales (representadas por Venus), que por ser ideales, no existen. Se evidencia la imposibilidad de estar en brazos de una mujer ideal aludiendo a la Venus de Milo, que no tiene brazos.
We, humans, never get satisfied with what we have. If we have, it is not good enough...
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...Son los brazos de la Venus que ha perdido los brazos. El prural se podría usar sólo en brazos ya que la Venus es una única cosa no hay dos.

Translations of this segment (26 total; 26 unique)

The only arms we could imagine enfolding ourselves in for a lifetime are those of the Venuses that have lost their arms
The only arms into which we would resign ourselves to be embraced for life are those of the Venuses who have lost theirs
The only arms in whose embrace we would willingly spend our entire lives are the arms of the Venuses who have lost their arms
The only arms we would consent to spending our life in are the arms of the Venus without arms
The only arms in which we would resign ourselves to spend our life are the arms of the Venuses who have lost their arms
The only embrace we would consent to spending our lives in is in the arms of those Venuses who have lost their arms
The only arms we would resign ourselves to spending our lives in are the arms of the Venuses who have lost their arms
The only arms in which we would resign to spend the rest of our lives are those of the Venuses who have lost them
The only arms between which we would endure spending a lifetime are the arms of a Venus that has lost her arms
The only arms we could resign ourselves to pass through life within are the arms of those armless Venuses
The only arms we would resign ourselves to spend our lives surrounded by are the arms of Venus who has lost her arms
The only arms between which we would resign ourselves to spending our lives, are the arms of the Venus who have lost their arms
The only arms in which one bear to spend one’s life are the arms of the armless Venus
The only arms in which we would allow ourselves to pass our lives are the arms of those Venus’s that have lost their arms
The only arms in which we would resign ourselves to spend our life, are the arms of the Venuses who have lost their arms
The only arms we would resign ourselves to lying in for life are the arms of those figures of Venus who no longer have them
The only arms in which we would resign to spent the rest of our lives are the arms of the Venus who have lost their arms
The only arms between which we would resign ourselves to spending our lives are the arms of those Venuses who have lost their arms
The only arms we would deign to resign our lives to, are the arms of the armless Venuses
The only arms in which we could be resigned to spend our lives are those of the Venuses who have lost their arms
Only within the arms of the Venuses which have lost their arms would we resign to spend our lives
The only arms in which we would resign ourselves to spend our life are thr arms of the Venuses who have lost them
The only arms between which we would resign ourselves to spending life are the arms of the Venuses that have lost their arms
The only arms in which we would be resigned to live life are the arms of the Venus's who have lost their arms
The only arms between which we would resign ourselves to live for life are those of Venuses who have lost arms
The only arms in which we would accommodate ourselves to spending the rest of our lives are those of an armless Venus
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