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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

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
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 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
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
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
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
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
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
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
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

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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