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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
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
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself 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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
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
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
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
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
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

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