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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
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 say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
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
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop

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