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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

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
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
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
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
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
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
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
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
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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 have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching

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