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

Jorge Luis Borges

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
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
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People 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
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
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
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
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship

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