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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.

Jorge Luis Borges

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
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
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
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
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin

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