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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
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
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World

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