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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

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
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
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
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
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify

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