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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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