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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

Jorge Luis Borges

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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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