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

Jorge Luis Borges

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
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.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
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
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
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
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible

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

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