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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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