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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

Jorge Luis Borges

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
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
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
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
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 possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
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
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
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
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

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