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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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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.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Everything touches everything.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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