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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

Jorge Luis Borges

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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
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
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
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
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
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.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness

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