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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
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.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
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
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 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
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
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

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

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