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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
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
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
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
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
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
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship

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