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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Action Deserve Heaven Hell Man Myself
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
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
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
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
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite

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