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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Jorge Luis Borges

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language

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