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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

Jorge Luis Borges

What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
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
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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
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
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing

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