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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

Jorge Luis Borges

You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
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 original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
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

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