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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Jorge Luis Borges

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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Allow Himself History Human Sea
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Confusion Orthodox
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
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
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
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
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World

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