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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Book Myself Sleep
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
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
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work 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 think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
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
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach

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