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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
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
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
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
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
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
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
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
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

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