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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
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
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
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
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 general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
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
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing

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