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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story

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