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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
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
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
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
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself

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