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Jorge Luis Borges

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
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
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
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
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
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
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
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner

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