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

Jorge Luis Borges

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
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
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
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
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
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

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