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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Jorge Luis Borges

It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
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
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man

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