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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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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.
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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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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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