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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

Jorge Luis Borges

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
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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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray

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