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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
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
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
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 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
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
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
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories

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