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

Jorge Luis Borges

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time 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
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone

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

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