Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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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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