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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Jorge Luis Borges

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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place

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