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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?

Jorge Luis Borges

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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
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
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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
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
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking

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