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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

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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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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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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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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