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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
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
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
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

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