Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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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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