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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

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
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
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective 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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