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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

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
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
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
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
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
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 worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

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