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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
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 future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
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.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past

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