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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

Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst

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