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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.

Jorge Luis Borges

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
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
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word

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