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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

It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
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
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
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
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
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
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River

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