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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
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
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret
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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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
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
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing

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