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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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.Jorge Luis Borges
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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.
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
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