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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Jorge Luis Borges

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
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
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing

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