Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGESChang 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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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