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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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