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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.

Jorge Luis Borges

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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
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 earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
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
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself

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