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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
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
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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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

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