There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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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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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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