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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
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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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University

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