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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Build Need Oneself Universe
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
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
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 foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
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
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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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Dreams Guide Writing
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Literature Patience Power Time
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing

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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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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