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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
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
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
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
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
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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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
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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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
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
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics

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