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Only in the present do things happen.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
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
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
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
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
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
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
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
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name

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