Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a … - Jorge Luis Borges

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Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

Jorge Luis Borges

Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.

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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

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Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm. . . the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised.

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Ziggy Marley

Love is my religion. Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it.

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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

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Michelangelo Antonioni

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

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Lisa Kleypas

Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.

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