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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word

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