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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
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.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
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
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
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
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
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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