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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Forever Form Ourselves Worst
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
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
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself

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