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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
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
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner

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