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Only in the present do things happen.

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
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
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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 sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
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
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
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

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