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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.

Jorge Luis Borges

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
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 do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
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
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
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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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe

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