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Jorge Luis Borges

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
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
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
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

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