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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Jorge Luis Borges

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
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
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
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
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
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
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
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
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

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