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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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