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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

I think most people are more important than their opinions.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Important Opinion People Thinking
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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
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
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
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
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
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man

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

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