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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.

Jorge Luis Borges

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
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
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
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
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
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Acceptance Experience Immortal World
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Animal Time

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