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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

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
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
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
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
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
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching

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