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

Jorge Luis Borges

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
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
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
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
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
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
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
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing

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