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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

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake 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
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
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
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
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
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
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

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