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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
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
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
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
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 heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
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
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.

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