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Every man should be capable of all ideas.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
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
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
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
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
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
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
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

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