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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

Jorge Luis Borges

It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
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
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
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.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
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
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
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.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
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

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