To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.Jorge Luis Borges
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
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