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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

Jorge Luis Borges

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
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
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
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
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility

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