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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

Jorge Luis Borges

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
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
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
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
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking

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