The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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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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