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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

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
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
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry

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

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

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