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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
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
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
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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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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

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