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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

Jorge Luis Borges

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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
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
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
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
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation

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