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

Jorge Luis Borges

We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise

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

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