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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Jorge Luis Borges

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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
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
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
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

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