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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
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
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
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
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
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
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

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