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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
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
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger

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