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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
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
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion

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