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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Faith Original Translation
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
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
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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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Choice Country Shame
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
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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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms

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