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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

Jorge Luis Borges

I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
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
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
Each thing implies the universe.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

One Liner Universe
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Desire God Immortal Myself
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man

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