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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
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
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
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
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
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
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
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
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World

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