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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

Jorge Luis Borges

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify

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