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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
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
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
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

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