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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

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
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
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
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
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

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