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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

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion

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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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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