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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.

Jorge Luis Borges

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
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
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing

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