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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

Jorge Luis Borges

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 man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
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
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
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
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
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
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand

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