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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

Jorge Luis Borges

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
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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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
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
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time

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