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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
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I have known what the Greeks did not: uncertainty.
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Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.
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I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
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A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.
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In all the world, one man has been born, one man has died.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
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I have known that thing the Greeks knew not – uncertainty.
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We know that language is like the moon and has its dark side.
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining...
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Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
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In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?
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There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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I secretly assumed, as poets do,
The duty on me to define the moon.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.
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In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do many Englishmen.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
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I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths.
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The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
Mary McCarthy
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Born:
August 24, 1899
Died:
June 14, 1986
(aged 86)
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