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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.

Jorge Luis Borges

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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
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
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
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
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
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
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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Creation Eyes Human Listening World

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.

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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.

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