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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Jorge Luis Borges

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
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
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
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
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
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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

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