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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

Jorge Luis Borges

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
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
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
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
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
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst

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