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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
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
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Commitment Life Mistake Myself
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
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

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