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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
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
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
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
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place

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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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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