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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

Jorge Luis Borges

In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
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
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
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
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Creativity Forget Memories

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

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