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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

Jorge Luis Borges

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
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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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
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
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
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
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
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
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time

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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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