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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

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
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

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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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