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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

Jorge Luis Borges

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.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
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
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
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
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 Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
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
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
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
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves

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