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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Life itself is a quotation.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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