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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.

Jorge Luis Borges

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves

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