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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Jorge Luis Borges

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order 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
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
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
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
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
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
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream

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