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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
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
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
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
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
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
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

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