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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
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
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself

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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