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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
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
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
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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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
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
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe

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