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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
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
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Opinion Right Yourself

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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