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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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
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 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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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
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
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
It 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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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone

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