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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
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
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
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
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
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
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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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
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
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

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