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Death is just infinity closing in.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
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
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

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