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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

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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
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
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
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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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

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