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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Jorge Luis Borges

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
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
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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
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
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
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

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

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