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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Jorge Luis Borges

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
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
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
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
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves

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