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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
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
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
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
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
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
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

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