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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
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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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
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
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
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
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
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick

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