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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

Jorge Luis Borges

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way

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