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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

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.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
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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Allow Himself History Human Sea
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
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present

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