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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk

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