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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Jorge Luis Borges

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
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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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
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
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
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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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World

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