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Jorge Luis Borges

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
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
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
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
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
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
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
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time

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