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

Jorge Luis Borges

I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
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
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
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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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
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

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