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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
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 fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
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
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

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