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This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time.

— Jorge Luis Borges The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)

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Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

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Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

The Divine Comedy (1977)

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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

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