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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
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
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea

Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.

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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.

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