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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
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
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
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness 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
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
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 may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation

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