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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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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
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
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
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
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
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word

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