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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

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
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.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
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.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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