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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
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 do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

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