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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Jorge Luis Borges

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
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
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
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
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
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 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

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

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