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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
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
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
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

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