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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

Jorge Luis Borges

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order 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
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
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
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

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