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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox

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