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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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