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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
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
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
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
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution

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