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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

Jorge Luis Borges

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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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