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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember 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
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Future Hope Memories Present Reality
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
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
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
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.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

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