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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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