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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

Jorge Luis Borges

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
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
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
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
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Opinion Right Yourself

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