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

Jorge Luis Borges

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
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
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
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time

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