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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Jorge Luis Borges

Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Breathe Hungry Universe
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
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
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Book Myself Sleep
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
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 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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Illumination Live Management Ourselves
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Conversation Death Forget Man

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