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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
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
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier

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