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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

Jorge Luis Borges

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
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
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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 walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible

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