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

Jorge Luis Borges

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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
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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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry

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