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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.

Jorge Luis Borges

We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
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
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
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
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
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
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
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
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story

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