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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

Jorge Luis Borges

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Missing Value Yourself
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
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
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
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
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Goodness Prayer Religious Secret

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

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