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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself

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