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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 ...more

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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 o...more

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Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

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Ferrari: How odd, Borges, it seems that we are talking constantly through memory. Sometimes, our conversations remind me of a dialogue between two mem...more

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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing

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A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of...more

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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

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Man's memory shapesIts own Eden within

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There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects ...more

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Puis il réfléchit: la réalité ne coïncide habituellement pas avec les prévisions; avec une logique perverse, il en déduisit que prévoir un détail circ...more

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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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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

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And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations....more

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I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all ...more