Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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Astonishment
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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