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

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
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
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

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

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