Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn 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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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