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Perhaps a feature of the crucified face lurks in every mirror; perhaps the face died, was erased, so that God may be all of us. Who knows but that tonight we may see it in the labyrinth of dreams, and tomorrow not know we saw it.
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But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a person that observes and narrates it and no longer the person that performed it.
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I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.
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The truth is that we all live by leaving behind; no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things and know everything.
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I am not certain whether I ever believed in the City of the Immortals; I think the task of finding it was enough for me.
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But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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El presente está solo. La memoriaErige el tiempo. Sucesión y engañoEs la rutina del reloj. El añoNo es menos vano que la vana historia.(The present is singular. It is memorythat sets up time. Both succession and errorcome with the routine of the clock. A yearis no less vanity than is history.)
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Aquí también esa desconocidaY ansiosa y breve cosa que es la vida.(Here too the never understood,Anxious, and brief affair that is life.)
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With perverse logic he inferred that to foresee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Faithful to this feeble magic, he would invent, so that they might not happen, the most atrocious particulars.
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