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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.

Jorge Luis Borges

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
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
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
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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