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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Jorge Luis Borges

In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
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
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
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
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
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
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
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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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