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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.

Jorge Luis Borges

When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
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
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Immortal Live Truth Willing
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Day Garden Hands Live Love

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