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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

Jorge Luis Borges

In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
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
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
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
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
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
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place

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