We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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