When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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