"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."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
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"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
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"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
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"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
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"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
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"More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way."
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