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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

Jorge Luis Borges

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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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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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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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