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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

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
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
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
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
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
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
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
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
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
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch

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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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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