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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.

Jorge Luis Borges

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
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
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
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
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 foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
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
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
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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