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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

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The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

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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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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Poet

Born: August 24th, 1899

Died: June 14th, 1986

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