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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
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
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
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
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

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