Dejan Stojanovic quote: "If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic."

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.
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We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
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History will be erased in the universal purgatory.
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The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
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Devil and God – two sides of the same face.
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With your goal you make the one.
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With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.
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My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.
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There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from eve...
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We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop a...
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They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.
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I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
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Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.
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He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.
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There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposi...
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To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.
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We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a s...
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The most complicated skill is to be simple.
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There is only as much space, only as much time,
Only as much desire, only as many words,
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The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program.
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Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
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We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness befor...
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To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.
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It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
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To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand th...
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Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent...
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In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
A...
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There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
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After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
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Creating means living.
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Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.
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If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.
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There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.
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Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.
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Nothing is part of everything.
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Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.
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Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.
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Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.
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I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?
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When the star dies,
Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright...
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A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
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To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.
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He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.
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There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.
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All dust is the same dust.
Temporarily separated
To go peacefully
And enjoy the et...
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Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all ...
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It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
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There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.
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In the essence of truth lies deceit.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC

Use the wings of the flying Universe,
Dream with open eyes;
See in darkness.
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Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.
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To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into...
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Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
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In an endless silence even screams sound silent.
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In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.
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I fly through memory to find a newborn love.
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Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.
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To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.
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Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.
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From nothing comes everything.
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From everything, nothing looks to nothing.
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When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.
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Description is a story well told already; experience offers truth.
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Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
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To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
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Absolute equals nothingness.
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Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
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What you gain here, you lose on the other side.
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Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.
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Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility c...
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Those who hate rain hate life.
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We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.
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My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
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Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
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Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
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For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.
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God is a cloud from which rain fell.
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Oblivion cures the old wounds.
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His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first t...
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The world cannot be translated; it can only be dreamed of and touched.
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We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
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To sense the peace of extinguished passion
Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge
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Possible is more a matter of attitude,
A matter of decision, to choose
Among the impossi...
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Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru,
Colombia and the Caribbean
Bear La Mancha and Quixo...
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Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote;
La Mancha is not just geography;
It is our personal...
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Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso,
From Dalí and El Greco,
From the gloomy 'View of...
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Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
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Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
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Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.
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Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
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Into the day as by dream I swim
To the music of nourished meaning.
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A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.
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You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
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Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
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Your head is a lit chamber.
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Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
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Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success
We forget the easiness of free beauty
Lyi...
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God is busy and has no time for you.
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Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only throug...
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Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
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Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.
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Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding throug...
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There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as man...
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Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.
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Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.
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Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, all the words, all the language...
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To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
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Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
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Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.
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Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.
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Life is only a flicker of melted ice.
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Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibil...
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Great poets are great copy editors.
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To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.
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Procreation annihilates eternity.
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Total knowledge is annihilation
Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel
The world sensed...
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This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
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There are no clear borders,
Only merging invisible to the sight.
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He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.
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When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
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How does one say something new and not retell?
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To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.
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From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.
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I can see myself before myself—
A being through dark scenery.
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From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?
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To dream on occasion is not dreaming,
To love on occasion is not love.
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A word only writes
Its night and rides
Its dream.
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Everything seems impossible
And everything seems possible.
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Possible impossibility emerges
From an impossible possibility,
Or possibly, impossible p...
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To understand possible means to understand impossible.
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Based on the law of probability
Everything is possible because
The sheer existence of po...
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When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble;
When everything is silent and perfect,
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If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago, he would've thought they were birds or angels f...
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There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.
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There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.
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He thought others were small; that was his greatness.
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Will the day tell its secret
Before it disappears,
Becomes timeless night.
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To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.
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Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
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When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; when everything is silent and perfect, there is ju...
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We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seer...
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Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to f...
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How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
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Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
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The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.
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Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
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Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.
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There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer.
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And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.
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The farther away, the closer the home becomes.
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It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
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One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.
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Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
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Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
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Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task...
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Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.
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The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.
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There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
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Wherever I go, I meet myself.
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To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.
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Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
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Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.
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Universe is the Sun watching its own self.
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If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have se...
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What does infinity mean to you?
Are you not infinity and yourself?
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When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.
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The universe is God's son.
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I travel, always arriving in the same place.
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Love is almost never simple.
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In the lie of truth lies the truth.
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A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
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To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.
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There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.
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Do not look too far for you will see nothing.
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I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.
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Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.
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He knows he will be born again,
And start fresh anew.
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We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.
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To jump over centuries
In one step is impossible.
Jump too high or far,
You’ll b...
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Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it’s easy to ex...
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To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.
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All those big words produce disgust today.
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Pretense cannot sustain blind power.
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The world is a navy in an empty ocean.
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You don’t know anything, but I know even less.
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If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?
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Most often, adorned winners haven’t worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winne...
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Sometimes it is more victorious to lose than to win.
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Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing
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You are not what you are;
You are darkness
Looking for light within.
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Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.
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Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
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Unjustified ambition kills value,
Kills someone else's desire to fly,
Cuts their wings, s...
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Earth is the source of light.
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Teaching others, he corrected himself.
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You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
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They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.
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Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.
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A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.
In the changed role this number enric...
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If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

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If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

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