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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

Jorge Luis Borges

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
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
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
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
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst

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