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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

Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
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
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
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
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking

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

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