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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

Jorge Luis Borges

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
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 book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

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