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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Jorge Luis Borges

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
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
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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
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
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
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories

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