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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Jorge Luis Borges

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
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
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
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
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
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
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
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
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion

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