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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?

Jorge Luis Borges

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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
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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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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