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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

Jorge Luis Borges

Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
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
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

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