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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
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
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
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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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
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
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

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