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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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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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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself

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