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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.

Jorge Luis Borges

Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
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
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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
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
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Only in the present do things happen.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.

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