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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

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
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
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
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time

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