My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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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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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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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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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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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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