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I think most people are more important than their opinions.

Jorge Luis Borges

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
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
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
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

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