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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
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
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time

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