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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

Jorge Luis Borges

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
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
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
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
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
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
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
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
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

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

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