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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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