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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
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
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing

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