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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

Jorge Luis Borges

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
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
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation

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