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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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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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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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