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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Discover Invention Poet
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
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
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself

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