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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
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
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.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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