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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

Jorge Luis Borges

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
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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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
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
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
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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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
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
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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Music Time Translation Understand
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
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

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