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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

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
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
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
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
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
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 dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Character Fools Myself Play Trick
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Existence Love Myself Reading Travel Visit Woman Writing

It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

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