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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
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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Accomplishment Future Past
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 Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science 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
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
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
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself

We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

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