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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
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
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
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
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
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
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World

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