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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

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
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
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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
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
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing

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