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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Jorge Luis Borges

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
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
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
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
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
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
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
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University

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