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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
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 might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself 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
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
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin

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