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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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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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
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
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
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

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