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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
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
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
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
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
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories

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