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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.

Jorge Luis Borges

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
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
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
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
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics

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