A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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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.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Everything touches everything.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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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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