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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

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
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
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
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
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
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
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
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
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

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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