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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

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
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
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
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst

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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