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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?

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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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
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 Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself

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