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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

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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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