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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
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 poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
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
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
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
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World

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