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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Expectation Himself Love
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
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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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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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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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry

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