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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.

Jorge Luis Borges

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
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
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
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 flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship

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