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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

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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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