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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
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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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution

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