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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

Jorge Luis Borges

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
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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Father Mirror Universe Visible
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

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