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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

Jorge Luis Borges

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
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
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret

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