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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
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
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
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves

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