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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Immortal Live Truth Willing
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
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
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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