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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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