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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

I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
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
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 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
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
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
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
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
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
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
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking

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