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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

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
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

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