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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.

Jorge Luis Borges

A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
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
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
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
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World

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