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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Jorge Luis Borges

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
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
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
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
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
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
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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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret

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