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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

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space 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
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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Day Different Measurement Money Time
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 possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection

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