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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
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
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
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
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
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet

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