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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

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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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