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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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