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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
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
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
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
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself

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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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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