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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
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
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery

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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