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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

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.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame 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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
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
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
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
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
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
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

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