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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

Jorge Luis Borges

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
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
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word

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