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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
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
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
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 heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
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
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language

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