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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Jorge Luis Borges

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
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
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship

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