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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Flight Himself Life Lose
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Abuse Democracy Statistics
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Country Deserve Language
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
Reality favors symmetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Reality Symmetry
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Death Easy Live Religion
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Book Myself Sleep
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Flattery Poster Worth
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Art Creativity End River
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Illumination Live Management Ourselves
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst

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