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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
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
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
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
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself

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