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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
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
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
There 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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Music Time Translation Understand
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

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