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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
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
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 have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
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
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
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 Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics

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