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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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As to whether a poem has been written by a great poet or not, this is important only to historians of literature. Let us suppose, for the sake of argu...more

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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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Man's memory shapesIts own Eden within

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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or ...more

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We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

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The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer...more

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Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying...more