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I think most people are more important than their opinions.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
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
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
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
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result

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