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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.

Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
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
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself

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