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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Jorge Luis Borges

I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man

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