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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes: The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
         

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.


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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.



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



I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.



The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.





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