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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.

Jorge Luis Borges

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
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
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
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 can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself

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