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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

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
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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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
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
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
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
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
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
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
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
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word

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