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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
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
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking

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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