A source text is a text (sometimes oral) from which information or ideas are derived. In translation, a source text is the original text that is to be translated into another language.
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“Might not the beatific vision become a source of boredom, in the long run?”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
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—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)