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

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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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

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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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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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Celebration Direct Expression
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Substance
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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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.

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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Original Translation
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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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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Disguise
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.

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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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 saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Translation
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Easy
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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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
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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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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Oneself
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Fall In Love
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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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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