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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Jorge Luis Borges

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
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
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
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
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
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
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 Finding Mention Rose Word
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

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