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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Jorge Luis Borges

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
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
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
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
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
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
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
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst

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