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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Aspect System Universe
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
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
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
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves

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