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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality

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