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Every man should be capable of all ideas.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
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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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
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
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
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
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
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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Accomplishment Future Past

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

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