The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn 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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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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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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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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