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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
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
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
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
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River

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