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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Jorge Luis Borges

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
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
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
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
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
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

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