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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

Jorge Luis Borges

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.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
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
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
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
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance

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