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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
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
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name

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