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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
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
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
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
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

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