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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself

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