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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
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
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
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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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself

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