Only in the present do things happen.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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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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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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