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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
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 man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry

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