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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

Jorge Luis Borges

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
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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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
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 word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking

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