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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
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 heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

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