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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

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 of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Book Experience Fall In Love Thinking
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
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
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
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
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation

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