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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.

Jorge Luis Borges

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 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 original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating Death Desire End Heart Win
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Eyes Music Mysterious World
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 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
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Man Memories Shape
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
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
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Memories Mirror Museum Shape
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
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
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.

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