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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Jorge Luis Borges

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
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
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
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
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify

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