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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
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
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
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
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation

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