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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
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

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