Reality favors symmetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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