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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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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
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 is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
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
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation

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