The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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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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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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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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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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