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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

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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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
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
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep

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