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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

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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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
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
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
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
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time

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