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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Jorge Luis Borges

Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics

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