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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Jorge Luis Borges

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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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