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

Jorge Luis Borges

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
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
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
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 writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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 writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
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
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
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

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