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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

Jorge Luis Borges

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
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
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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
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
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

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