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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

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 system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking

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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