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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
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
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
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
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
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
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself

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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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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