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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

Jorge Luis Borges

You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
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
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

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