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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

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
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
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
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World

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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