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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.

Jorge Luis Borges

We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
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
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing

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