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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.

Jorge Luis Borges

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art Creativity End River
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
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
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
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
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
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
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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