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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

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
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
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
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
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man

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

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