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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Jorge Luis Borges

Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
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
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
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
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
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story

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