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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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
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
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream

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