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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
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 things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
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
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
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
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word

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