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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
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
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
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
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry

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