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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Jorge Luis Borges

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise 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
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
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
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
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love

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