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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

Jorge Luis Borges

Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
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
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
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
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
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
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
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing

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