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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

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
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Forever Form Ourselves Worst
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
Death is just infinity closing in.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Close Death Infinite
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Each thing implies the universe.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

One Liner Universe
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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