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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
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
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
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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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
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
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
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
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
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
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking

When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

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