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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
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
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
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
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

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