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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
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
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
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
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

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