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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Jorge Luis Borges

There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
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
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
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 saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
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
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World

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