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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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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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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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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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Everything touches everything.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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