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Death is just infinity closing in.

Jorge Luis Borges

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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.

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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Horror Sensation
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.

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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Spanish Word
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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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 Mention Word
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 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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Damage
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Oneself See Way
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Measurement
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Language Symptoms
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous
Everything touches everything.

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Everything touches everything.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Fortune
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Infinite

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