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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
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
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
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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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
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
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking

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