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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
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
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself

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