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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.

Jorge Luis Borges

You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
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
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
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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
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
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
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
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking

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