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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
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
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
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 heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
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
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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 have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
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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