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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
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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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
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 future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
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 original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
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
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
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick

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