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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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