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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

Jorge Luis Borges

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
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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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
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 sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise

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