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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

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Blind Darkness Poet
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
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
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
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death 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
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Build Need Oneself Universe
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
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
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story

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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