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

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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