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Jorge Luis Borges

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
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
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
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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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
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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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
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

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