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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.

Jorge Luis Borges

We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
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
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
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
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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