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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
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
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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
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
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
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

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