Each thing implies the universe.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt 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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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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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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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Everything touches everything.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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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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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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