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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Jorge Luis Borges

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
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
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
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
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt Fake Memories Process Reflection School
Each thing implies the universe.
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One Liner Universe
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work 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.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching

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