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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

Jorge Luis Borges

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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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