Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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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.
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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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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.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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