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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
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
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
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
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word

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