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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
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
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
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
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing

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