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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

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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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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
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
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach

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