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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

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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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
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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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify

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

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

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