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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
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
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
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
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
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
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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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
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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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
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.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking

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