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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.

Jorge Luis Borges

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
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
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time

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