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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

Jorge Luis Borges

Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
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
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance

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