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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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  2. My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
  3. Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's …
  4. Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
  5. Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
  6. El hecho ocurrio en el mes de febrero de 1969, al norte de Boston, en Cambridge. No lo escribi inmediatamente porque mi primer proposito fu…
  7. The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
  8. Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, …

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  • writing
  • creativity
  • imagination
  • dreams
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