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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?

Jorge Luis Borges

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
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 is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result

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