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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

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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
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
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
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
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
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify

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