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

Jorge Luis Borges

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Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking

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