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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

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.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
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
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
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
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing

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