"Do I have twice as much time after work if there are two words for the same space of time -- 'evening' and 'night'? In the 'evening' one can go to the theater and during the 'night' one can sleep. In Japanese there is only one word, 'yoru,' for evening as well as for night; therefore one does not sleep enough."
--Yoko Tawada in Lives in Translation
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