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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.

Jorge Luis Borges

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
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
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
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
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth

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