What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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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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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Everything touches everything.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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