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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

Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time 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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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
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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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win

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