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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
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
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
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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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
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
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World

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