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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

Jorge Luis Borges

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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 novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
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
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality

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