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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

Jorge Luis Borges

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Accomplishment Future Past
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Hide Metaphor Mom
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
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
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Death Form Fragile Lose World
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
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Mindset Truth Willing

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

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