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

Jorge Luis Borges

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
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
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
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories

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

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