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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.

Jorge Luis Borges

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst 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
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
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
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
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
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
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River

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