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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
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
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop

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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