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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

Jorge Luis Borges

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
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
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
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
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
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

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