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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

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
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
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
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
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
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
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
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
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
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
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger

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