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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

Jorge Luis Borges

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
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
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
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
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
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

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

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