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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.

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
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
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
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
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
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
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
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
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
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.

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