Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

Jorge Luis Borges

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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Religious
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Oneself
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Death is just infinity closing in.

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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Infinite
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Word
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Mention Word
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

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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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Museum
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.

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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Form
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Transformation
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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