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

Jorge Luis Borges

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
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
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Decoration Flower Garden Plant Self Love Soul Yourself
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
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
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
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

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