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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
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
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
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
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
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

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