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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

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
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
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
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
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
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River

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