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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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