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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
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
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
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
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone

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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