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

Jorge Luis Borges

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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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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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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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