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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

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Mindset Truth Willing
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
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
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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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Missing Value Yourself
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

Breathe Hungry Universe
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
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Death Easy Live Religion
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Justify

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