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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

Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
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
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
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
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World

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.

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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.

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