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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.

Jorge Luis Borges

Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
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
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion

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