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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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Desire God Immortal Myself
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach

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