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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

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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
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
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
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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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself

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