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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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
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
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
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
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself

Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.

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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.

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