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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
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
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality

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