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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
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
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
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
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
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
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking

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