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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

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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing

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