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

Jorge Luis Borges

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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
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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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
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
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name

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