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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Jorge Luis Borges

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
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
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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Music Time Translation Understand
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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
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
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself

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