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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
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.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
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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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Blind Darkness Poet

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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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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