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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

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Existence Identity Memories Problem Solution
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
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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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
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.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word

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