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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

Jorge Luis Borges

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
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
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves

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