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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Jorge Luis Borges

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
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
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 truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame

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