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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Jorge Luis Borges

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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
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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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible

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