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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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Human Pain Point Suffering
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
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
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
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
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
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time

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