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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
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 central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
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
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
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
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick

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