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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Jorge Luis Borges

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
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
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
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
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
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time

We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

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