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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Jorge Luis Borges

It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
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
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
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
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
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion

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