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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Jorge Luis Borges

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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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