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Death is just infinity closing in.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
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
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing

Death is just infinity closing in.

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