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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

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
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
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
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
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
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
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
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word

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