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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.

Jorge Luis Borges

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
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
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
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
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
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
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

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