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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
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
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See

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