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Jorge Luis Borges

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
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 worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
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
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name

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