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JORGE LUIS BORGESTo say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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