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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
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
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
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
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
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
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

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