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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
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
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 mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story

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