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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.

Jorge Luis Borges

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
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
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
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
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time

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