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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
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
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
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
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
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
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name

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