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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
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
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
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 have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
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
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise

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