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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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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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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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