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

Jorge Luis Borges

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
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 tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
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
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream

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

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