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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

Jorge Luis Borges

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
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
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
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
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
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
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
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
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

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

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