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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

Jorge Luis Borges

Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
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
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
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
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
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
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep

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