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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
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
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
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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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
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
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

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