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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
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
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

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