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

Jorge Luis Borges

Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
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
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
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
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
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing

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