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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself 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
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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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

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