Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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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 had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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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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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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