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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand 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
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
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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
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
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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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry

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