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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Jorge Luis Borges

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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
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
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
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
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
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
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
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
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
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing

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