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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.

Jorge Luis Borges

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.

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