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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Age Oneself Poet Poetry
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
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
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Date Death Imagination Known Yourself

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