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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Jorge Luis Borges

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Blind Darkness Poet
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
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
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
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
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time 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
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
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise

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