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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.

Jorge Luis Borges

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
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
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection

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