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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
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
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time

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