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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

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
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
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
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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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
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.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
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
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing

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