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

Jorge Luis Borges

In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
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
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
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
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
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
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
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself

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