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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

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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
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
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
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
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
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
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
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
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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