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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Book Known Stand Writing
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
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
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
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
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
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Probability Reality
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
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

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