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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
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
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
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
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight Himself Life Lose
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Carry Difficult Essential Immortal Myself
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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