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

Jorge Luis Borges

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Day Garden Hands Live Love
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
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
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
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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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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

Infinite Point Space Time

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