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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Jorge Luis Borges

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
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
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See

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