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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
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
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
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
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
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
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
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself

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