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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself

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