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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
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
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
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
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
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
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word

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