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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.

Jorge Luis Borges

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
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
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
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
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
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
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
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
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry

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