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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Death Easy Live Religion
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money 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
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
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
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Commitment Life Mistake Myself
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Discover Invention Poet
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Known Myself Person Reach
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way

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