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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation

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