Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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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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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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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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