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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

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 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
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
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
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
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.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion

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