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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

Jorge Luis Borges

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
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

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