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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Jorge Luis Borges

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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 think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
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
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
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
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 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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself

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