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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
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
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself 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
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
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
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
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

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