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

Jorge Luis Borges

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
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
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
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
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
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
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
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
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
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
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
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
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame

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

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