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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.

Jorge Luis Borges

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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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
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
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
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
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself

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