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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance

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