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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

Jorge Luis Borges

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
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
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
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
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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
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
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.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
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
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.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way

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