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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
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
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon

I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

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