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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Jorge Luis Borges

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Book Myself Sleep
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Immortal Live Truth Willing
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Forever Form Ourselves Worst
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
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
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
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Build Philosophy Stone
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Breathe Hungry Universe

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