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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

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 always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
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
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
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 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
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin

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