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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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 possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
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
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
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
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
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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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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