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Jorge Luis Borges

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst 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
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
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
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
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
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
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

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