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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
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
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
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
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
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
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time

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