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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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