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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.

Jorge Luis Borges

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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
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.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
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 flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
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
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
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

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