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

Jorge Luis Borges

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 can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk 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
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page Pride Reading Writing
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Believe Progress Stop
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
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
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Future Science Time
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
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
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe
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
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Existence Justify

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