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

Jorge Luis Borges

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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time

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