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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

Jorge Luis Borges

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
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
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
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
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

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