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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

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
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
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
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering

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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