The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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