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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
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
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
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
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
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
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
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
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
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop

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