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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.

Jorge Luis Borges

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
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

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