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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Jorge Luis Borges

We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
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
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
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
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
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
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
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
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time

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