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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
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
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
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
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence 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
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing

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