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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
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
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
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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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Happiness Hold Mystery
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
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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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
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
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction 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
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man

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