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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
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
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
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
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe

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