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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

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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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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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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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