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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

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work 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
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
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
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
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 always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading

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