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Death is just infinity closing in.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
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
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
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
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
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

Death is just infinity closing in.

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