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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

Jorge Luis Borges

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
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 arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
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
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
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
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
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
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

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