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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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