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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
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
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
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
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking

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