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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Jorge Luis Borges

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
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
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
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
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking

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