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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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