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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
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
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
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
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Earth Mirror Myself Reflection See
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

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