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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

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
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
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
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
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
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
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
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
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

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