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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
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.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
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
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
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
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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