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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
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
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
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
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
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize

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