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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
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
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
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
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading

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