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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

In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
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
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
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
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
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

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