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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.

Jorge Luis Borges

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
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
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
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
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity Forget Memories
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
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
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Arrival Expectation Far Slow Walk
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth

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