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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Jorge Luis Borges

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
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
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
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
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
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.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame

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