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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

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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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