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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
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
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
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

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