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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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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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