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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.

Jorge Luis Borges

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Future Past
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
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
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
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
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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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Believe Disguise Movie People Photograph Stranger
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Inspirational Motivational Weakness

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