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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

Jorge Luis Borges

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
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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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
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
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality

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