Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line"
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Labyrinth
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Names are not always what they seem."
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young"
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth."
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you."
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"There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one."
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"What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned."
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"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!"
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"After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it."
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"At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze."
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"The labyrinth blows, but I choose it."
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"Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself."
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"I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps."
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"I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a private mythology of tigers, of blades, of labyrinths, and I"m unaware of the fact this is so. My readers are finding it all the time. But I think perhaps that is the duty of poet."
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"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth."
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"There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze."
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"Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever."
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"I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave"
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"It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?"
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"And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
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"That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?"
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"Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign."
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"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."
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"To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets"
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"A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time."
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