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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Jorge Luis Borges

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
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
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
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

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