The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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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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