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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Jorge Luis Borges

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
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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Human Pain Point Suffering
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name

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