"The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher."
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"I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal."
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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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"In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing."
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"You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?"
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"We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe."
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"Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it."
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"His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further."
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"In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects."
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"My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges."
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"Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining."
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"I have always come to life after coming to books."
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"Death is just infinity closing in."
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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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"Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger."
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"I don't think I can really believe in doomsday; I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As I wrote down in one of my sonnets - I seem to be always plagiarizing, imitating myself or somebody else for that matter - I think I am quite unworthy of heaven or of hell, and even of immortality."
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"The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody."
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"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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"The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy."
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"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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