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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.

Jorge Luis Borges

I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
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
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
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
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
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
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking

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