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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
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
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation

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