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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

Jorge Luis Borges

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
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
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
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
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
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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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
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.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea

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