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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

Jorge Luis Borges

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
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
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
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

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