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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Commitment Life Mistake Myself
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
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
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst

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