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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
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
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
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
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
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
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
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love

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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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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