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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

Jorge Luis Borges

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
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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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
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 Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
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
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
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

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