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

Jorge Luis Borges

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
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
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
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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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
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

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