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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.

Jorge Luis Borges

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
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
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
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
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
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River

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