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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Jorge Luis Borges

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
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
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
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
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
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
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
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick

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