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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.

Jorge Luis Borges

A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
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
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
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
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

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