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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
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
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
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.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Forever Form Ourselves Worst
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.

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