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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
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
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
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World

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