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I have always come to life after coming to books.

Jorge Luis Borges

I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
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
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
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
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
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man

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